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Power struggle in Connecticut
August 26, 2005NEW HAVEN, Conn. — The New Haven Board of Aldermen held a fiery hearing on July 25 regarding a proposal for a special hospital zone which will include a $430 million Cancer Center at Yale New...
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LABOR UPDATE
August 26, 2005LABOR UPDATE Conyers to speak at Boston hearing on health care crisis The Greater Boston Labor Council and several local unions are among the more than 30 grassroots organizations sponsoring a hearing at Boston’s historic Faneuil...
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Plan to save labor unity
August 26, 2005AFL-CIO proposes solidarity charters for disaffiliated locals in CLCs and state federations WASHINGTON (PAI) — The AFL-CIO created a procedure to let locals from unions that left the federation — the Service Employees, Teamsters, United Food...
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Animal advocates decry CAFTA as deadly disaster
August 26, 2005Animal advocates denounced the passage of the Dominican Republic-Central America Free Trade Agreement as a “deadly disaster” for farmed animals and wildlife. Prior to the vote, a letter signed by over 100 animal organizations was sent...
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WORLDNOTES
August 26, 2005Haiti: Denounce detention of priest A lawyer for jailed Father Gerard Jean-Juste last week called the Roman Catholic priest’s detention by Haitian police a flagrant violation of the 1987 Haitian constitution and the United Nations Charter...
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